Omaha man recounts Ebola scare on cruise with worker who handled specimen

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.livewellnebraska.com/ebola/omaha-man-recounts-ebola-scare-on-cruise-with-worker-who/article_d516d752-5883-11e4-b1b0-001a4bcf6878.html

Posted: Monday, October 20, 2014 1:06 pm
By Bob Glissmann / World-Herald staff writer

An Ebola scare aboard their cruise ship already had disrupted the vacation of an Omaha family.

Then, after they got home, an adult daughter found out via email that because she had been aboard the ship, determined to be Ebola-free, she wouldn’t be starting a job she secured before the cruise.

An infectious disease specialist said Monday that’s an example of the “irrational fear” about Ebola that has swept the country.

Ebola unquestionably is a dangerous virus. It has killed thousands of people in West Africa and one man, Thomas Eric Duncan, who flew from Liberia to Dallas after contracting the virus. But Dr. Mark Rupp of the Nebraska Medical Center said that developments Monday reinforce the message that “the public is safe and that Ebola is not very infectious in its early stages.”

FULL story at link.

[LeftInTX]

1. 2 kids who are on that cruise weren't allowed to attend school

Happened in Oklahoma.
FWIW: How did those kids get to miss school to go on a cruise?

[HeiressofBickworth]

2. I love the quote I saw yesterday

(may even have been on DU, but I don't remember where exactly). Ebola has killed fewer Americans than OJ Simpson.

Ebola is nowhere on my list of things to be afraid of. This fear-mongering would be funny if it wasn't causing such problems for otherwise innocent people.